Frontline1983 | TV Show

PBS's primary public-affairs documentary series, `Frontline' focuses on one (usually timely) topic each program. Overseen since its inception by executive producer David Fanning, it has been honored regularly over the years, winning 34 DuPont-Columbia awar (more…)PBS's primary public-affairs documentary series, `Frontline' focuses on one (usually timely) topic each program. Overseen since its inception by executive producer David Fanning, it has been honored regularly over the years, winning 34 DuPont-Columbia awards, 12 Peabody awards and 29 Emmys. In 2001, `Frontline' launched `Frontline/World,' an offshoot devoted to foreign affairs featuring work by young filmmakers.

Season 6, Episode 9 To a Safer Place

“To a Safer Place,” a 1987 case study of sexual child abuse and its aftermath. The film follows Shirley Turcotte to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she had been the victim of continual sexual abuse by her father until she ran away at age 14.